There's something about when it gives a shockingly incorrect answer with the same chirpy HAL 9000 voice that feels so hopeful. Watson won't get discouraged, it will just try again.
I'm not really a trash-talking sort of guy, so it was fun to explore that.
The buzzer timing is so important and when you get into a rhythm like that - to go back to baseball you'll hear hitters on a hot streak say that the ball looks like a beach ball -and when you have the timing on the buzzer and you're just getting in whenever you want, that seems to sort of snowball.
If Watson beats me, at least it won't enjoy it. And there is some solace in that.
My attention span was not great.
I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.
Giving autographs is flattering.
No sense making plans to get a job or finish school at Johns Hopkins, which I just wasn't getting anything out of. Life was waiting to go back on 'Jeopardy!'
The first time I thought about buying my own clothes was the first time I had money to do so.
If you want to be really famous you have to go on TV every day.
I'm always really confident when I play 'Jeopardy.'
Human players have their strengths and weaknesses and Watson is the same way. He just has different strengths and weaknesses than most people.
Jeopardy' is an institution, and people know what to expect from it and what the game's about.
You know, another thing people don't realize is that there's a ton of luck in 'Jeopardy.'
I would entertain endorsement offers if they came along.
My dad works for Merrill Lynch so I'm in good hands there.
I had no direction. But now I can afford to have no direction.
If you bet big on a daily double, you can hurt yourself.
Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.
Show business people aren't vapid.
